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Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini

Mark the Evangelist

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Apostolic disciple1st c.

Who

John Mark of Jerusalem, companion of Barnabas and Paul and then of Peter, whose interpreter he was; Papias, as Eusebius reports (Church History III.39), says he wrote down Peter's preaching in his Gospel. Tradition makes him the founder of the church of Alexandria.

Taught by
Peter the Apostled. c. 64/67

Papias in Eusebius, Church History III.39 (Mark, Peter's interpreter, wrote what he remembered of his preaching); 1 Peter 5:13

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